Walky’s far too manly for your word meaning subtleties! If it’s long, and flowing, and covers a woman’s secret lady-bits, then it’s a dress, and should be taken off, immediately! That’s all a manly man needs to worry about!

Rolling around on the floor (even if it was in public) has a way of causing buttons to become unbuttoned. Which was sort of the point, showing the enthusiasm of the greeting in the episode you refer to.

No – Joyce gives Dorothy the exact same look as Walky in panel 4. (As does Ethan, for no reason I can fathom; is Dorothy in a skirt that surprising?) It’s only in panel five that she gets a dirty look, and it’s a “you’re a dirtbag” look directed at Walky.

I’m saying I don’t understand how there’s still pee [and worse??] ALL OVER THE PLACE when all it takes is sitting over the hole. Unless someone’s trying to pee standing up without proper aim. But then, I’ve made an art form of putting paper on the seat.

Might be a little kid, but then it’d be on the floor, too. Maybe there was but I didn’t want to look too hard.

I have 4 pairs. Ratty but still nice styled sandles I use around the house (That used to be used for the next slot until they lost a buckle. Function but look dumb), nice sandals for going out in shorts on a sunny day. Sneakers for general use and a pair of black leather biker boots for fancy occasions. Also dozens of old shoes that I don’t wear anymore.

We have a friend who has only one pair of shoes, and it’s HORRIBLE because they’re the SAME pair of shoes he’s had since school [like, >20 YEARS!] because he has ENORMOUS SASQUATCH FEET and can’t find new ones that fit.

Or so is the excuse.

Anyway, he fucking stinks as is, and the shoes don’t help, and I don’t understand how he has a girlfriend because what the fuck dude, hygiene. [sadly, yes, his roommates have been dumping baking soda and such in the shoes and getting on his case about showering]

I have been purchasing the exact same style of shoes for the last 8 years (or so) because they are easy to cut and install the lift I need for my short leg syndrome. Without the lift a walk to the corner would result in having to spend the next day in bed in agonizing back pain, with the lift I can walk the mile to the grocery store, shop, and then walk the mile home with nothing more that requiring a sit and stretch when I got home.

Let’s see – there’s a pair of dress shoes, a pair of casual shoes, a pair of sandals, a pair of work boots, a pair of hiking boots, a pair of running shoes, a pair of tennis shoes, a pair of basketball shoes, a pair of golf shoes, …

Basically, they bump heads a lot since Walky is more blunt about his opposition to a lot of her viewpoints, and Joyce places Dorothy on a pedestal and goes back and forth on her approval of them as a match. That, and sometimes Walky just likes antagonizing her a little.

Joyce has shown hints of attraction towards Walky, like her comments indicating finding the mouse boys cute when she was younger, and her looking at him in a bit of a different light due to Dorothy’s “sculpted out of caramel” comment about Walky and what she saw in him. Nothing huge, but enough to cause her a little embarrassment when called out on it.

I don’t know, to me there’s nothing sexier than a woman who can confidently pull of an everyday dress (not like wear dresses everyday, but is comfortable enough in her own skin that if she wants to wear a dress, then she’ll fucking wear a dress). Though throwing in combat boots and multicolored hair with several piercings definitely helps too xD

The need to sequester themselves into their own seperate thing from the main demographic’s not a bad place to start. Their insistence that the show caters to them is another. There’s… a lot worse too, I’m just starting with the beginning.

As a guy who has dabbled in the Brony arts, meh. I get the fact that it’s a children’s show, but if you ACTUALLY WATCH THE SHOW (not just obsess over the off the wall fringe shit), it is actually pretty good at teaching how to be more sociable. My tie with the Brony sect stops there though. I don’t even have a favorite pony (totally a lie, twilight is best pony).
As for the “other stuff”. All I need to do is point to rule34. It’s not the only kid’s show, and it certainly won’t be the last.

I’m not thinking of the existence of rule 34. There’s Peppermint Patty/Marcie bdsm stuff, and Kirk was banging Spock since the existence of Fanzines (I don’t think fanzines PRINTED it, but it’s pretty unlikely the authors didn’t WRITE it); this is a ship that has sailed long before either of us was born (Presumably). One of the things I was thinking of *is* close, though: I’m thinking of the absurd creepiness *about* said rule 34. But it’s by no means all of what I meant.

also fyi I made my Pokemon BnW team include a Rarity (Admittedly, Milotic isn’t very horselike, but it *is* very Rarity) and a Twilight, and trounced scrubs with Team Cute. My plan to emasculate anyone stupid enough to feel emasculated by losing with their cookie cutter Pseudolegendary teams failed because I didn’t know that Nintendo, in their infinite wisdom (not sarcasm here), disabled voice chat (I have a squeaky voice and planned to cheer as part of the show) and nicknames to prevent trolling. I didn’t exactly dislike the show. The problem’s not the show – it’s the bronies.

Bronies are just like another other fandom. Plenty of them are decent people who are just big enough fans of a show that they use the fandom name. But the side that people outside the fandom notice the most are the annoying fans who are more vocal than other Bronies so to someone who encounters these fans this will be what they see Bronies as.

“Emasculating jerkbags who would be emasculated by losing to a girl” is exactly why I tried out Peach in Smash Bros. Melee. I then mained her because she’s actually pretty powerful in Melee! They nerfed her a bit for Brawl, but I still won my first (and only) online match against randoms as the pretty pink prancing princess of pain and punishment. It was satisfying!

Shame about Wii/DS Nintendo WFC being shut fown last month. No more online Smashing until Smash 4 comes out. Hmm.

Fandom Nod != Primary demographic. AT all. The claimst hat they *ARE* the primary demographic are…. well, reminiscent of the worst parts of transformers fandom. It’s just that in transformers, they seem to keep a better hold on it.

It’s pretty hard to out-stupid 4chan when you’re a seven-year-old girl. :/ MLP’s “primary demographic” is never going to be louder than the bronies, just because the “brony” moniker keeps getting stuck on adult male-type beings.

Looney Tunes put all kinds of adult “nods” in the cartoons all the time, but they were still designed to entertain KIDS. A nod is a nod, not a demographic indicator. Hell, Neopets has nods to fucking EVERYTHING, but the target demographic [which started out as "bored college kids"!] gradually went down in age as it got bought out and they realized they could earn more money from making it all-ages.

To anyone who’s read It’s Walky!, there’s a scene that exemplifies what the alt-text says. And subverts the hell out of it. Near the end,

Spoiler, if “near the end” doesn’t warn you off enough.

Joe builds them both giant mechs that can only be operated by them, and what they might normally say. Willis uses this to point out both how they could be stereotypical caricatures of gender roles, and at times probably were, but also, their reactions and their attempts at guessing show just how far they’d come in terms of becoming their own persons. Regardless of their gender, they become strong (mature, emotionally open, well rounded) characters.

Dresses for guys make total sense as testicles hang outside the body cos they operate better when they are a few degrees cooler than the main body and wearing dresses(while going commando) allow your ;nads to do just that.

Good call, at least. Man Purses that I’ve seen (and I’m by no means a connoiseur) don’t seem designed to be so fashionable. Which I guess makes them a smaller investment, but also means that if you’re wearing the dress for fashion, getting a matching accessory will be hell.

That because women buy so many clothes at a time when they go shopping, at one point shop owners had t the thought,” we haft to raise prices we’re selling a lot of stock but not making enough munny off of them.”

Forever, out and standing, or you can throw money at the problem and hope you get it off the internet (and if you’re wrong, well, sucks to be you).

I think I’ll like it better when I’m doing it with the wife, since I’ll at least know I won’t be back as quickly. Her stuff holds up longer, for whatever reason, in the wash. Probably the use of better materials.

Eric Idle did a SNL skit called Drag Racing Today where he and that Coneheads guy were all done up and running sprints at a LI dragstrip (car racing kind of dragstrip). I looked for it on YouTube but could not find it.

Hmm. “You’re (sadly) a boy”, says Joyce? Now combine this clear suggestion that she wishes Walky were a girl (with hair just like his sister) with Walky’s views on what Joyce wants to do with Dorothy, and the threesome desire is just getting kinkier and kinkier.

For the record I hate pink. I was actully playing FFXIV with a close (gay) male freind today and I was lamenting the shirt I got from a quest was pink and undyeabe. He on the other hand, found it cute on my catboy.

I’m straight, but I like lots of girly things. My friend was delighted that I had no qualms with watching MLP. When I worked in a library, I was the “authority” on female centered sci-fi, fantasy and slice-of-life books. (A girl I worked with specialized in the high drama and romance.) Just came from being so interested in girls from such a young age that I never got along with other boys and essentially socialized as a girl. I think gay guys are people, and people like whatever they like. Apparently, I set off every gaydar in the metro, but that’s because people have stupid definitions of manhood and womanhood that above all the other crap that goes into it includes everything needing to belong to one category or the other. People are people, they like a lot of the same things. I say likes and dislikes should go in the gender box marked “humanity”.

Oh my god I’m just realizing that this is a reaction that is going to make Joyce realize this is a thing that Ethan will just never think. And it will remind you that you are dating someone with 0 interest in you. And while I suspect that’s what you basically want now, you don’t want it as a permanent thing.

Joyce, your hopefully temporary despair will not sustain me as well as Ruth and Billie’s hopefully temporary despair, but it will serve.

Joyce is the kind of girl that thinks that real men don’t lust after women. Her male role model is her father. Remember her father?
So Ethan really is the perfect man for her. Alas, Joyce is not the perfect man for Ethan.
(Good for Joyce that her choices are not limited to heterosexuality. Maybe she could hook up with Sal’s motorcycle.)

Joyce hasn’t technically confirmed she wants to be lusted after, but she has made no bones of feeling lust, and I think that given her completely absurd aims in dating ethan, she wants him to at least display INTEREST.

Joyce is well aware that guys lust. (I mean, she knows Joe. She’s been on a date with Joe.) She’s probably been told since before she was old enough to understand what it really meant that guys driven by their lusts were going to try to lead her into sin, and it was up to her to be strong and remain pure in spite of that. She comes from the culture of Chastity Churchmouse and Purity Balls (which, incidentally, I always picture as giant hamster balls that they lock the girls into to preserve their purity).

I’m not sure she understands that it’s normal for her (or girls in general) to feel lust. But she certainly understands that guys lust, and lust for her specifically, and that, especially since the Ryan incident, scares her. That’s the reason she’s dating a gay guy in the first place – because his lust is completely unthreatening to her. (Also completely unfulfilling to her, but it’s taking her longer to discover that.)

I don’t feel sorry for her either, though for different reasons than Jen. I don’t think either one is doing anything wrong. Healthy? Not so much. But wrong? Ethan is fully aware of Joyce’s stance on homosexuality. He may not be being honest with himself, but he’s been honest with her, and she’s been honest with him in return. Joyce is fully aware of Ethan’s sexual orientation. She doesn’t understand it, and she has trouble separating thoughts from actions (After all, sexual attraction isn’t a sin. Having sex with someone you shouldn’t is.), but again, she’s been honest with him how she feels about it, and he’s been honest in return. It’s the same argument I made the other day in a discussion about polyamory: relationships aren’t the same for everyone. What’s deviant to someone else doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter if it’s a good idea or a bad idea for the people involved, so long as the people actually in the relationship are being honest and respectful of one another. It’s their choice to make decisions that may not be good for them in the long run. In the end, this relationship could actually work. They may not always be happy with it, but they’ve laid a foundation that lets them learn more about each other and they feel comfortable with each other. So long as it remains their choice to stay with each other, who really has the right to tell them that they’re wrong? Even if they went to a church and placed themselves under the “authority” of a church leader to tell them what is right or wrong, they are not leading a sinful lifestyle and are in the right no matter who might look down on them for it.

This is why, despite Walky and Dorothy generally being cute together, and despite having already seen this story in the last universe, Joyce and Walky still make the best couple.

Joyce and Walky’s relationship is basically exactly like Joyce and Joe’s relationship in Roomies, (most likely because, at the time, that’s probably what Willis thought MANLY-MEN(tm) actually acted like) and Joyce and Joe playing off each other was pretty much the best thing about Roomies. Joyce and Joe in Dumbing of Age don’t play off each other nearly as well, but Joyce and Walky are the perfect foils for each other, and I absolutely love seeing them together.

Does that necessarily mean they should be a couple? I dunno, but it would certainly be fun to watch!

Dresses are just plain awesome. It’s too bad that if I wear them, people tend to either make all kinds of ridiculously false assumptions about my gender identity or sexuality, or assume I’m making some sort of political, cultural, or satirical statement. Honestly, if I wear a dress, it’s because dresses are objectively awesome garments to wear.

I once had a coworker who was a very straight, cisgendered male who was really upset that he couldn’t wear a skirt to work. He had gotten married in Fiji and wore the traditional men’s garb there and found it to be the most comfortable thing he had ever worn. However, the mutual fund company we worked for wouldn’t allow him to wear it to work.

Like a lot of things that are connected to being a woman, they CAN be really awesome for ladies except that people use them to put gender roles on us, too. And then use those roles to justify treating us badly.